The ASPRO team manages hundreds of projects. These projects encompass a huge variety of types and values. Projects range from a few hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of pounds of external client expenditure.

Types of projects include asset protection to bridges, tunnels, residential and commercial developments, statutory undertakers’ crossings, level crossing alterations, electricity pylons, telecoms masts and a host of others, including major schemes such as Crossrail, as well as hundreds of minor schemes which need a fairly rapid response The essential theme of all these projects is that they must have some impact on the railway that needs project managing by the team in order to reduce the risk to Network Rail

Job Purpose

The Construction Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of projects through the various stages of the life cycle and to support and assist the Project Manager in delivering successful outcomes for the overall team activities.
The team presents the “Front Face” of NWR to the external clients, and as such, has a responsibility in managing client expectations in a professional and effective manner but , at the same time, to ensure that the railway is safeguarded from any ill effects from the external projects.

Key Accountabilities

1. Managing a portfolio of projects from inception to completion, including assessing project remits, producing cost estimates, schedules of works, negotiating simple agreements with clients, signing off method statements, assessing design approvals required and monitoring site activities.
2. Competence in communicating effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, orally and in writing.
3. Knowledge and competence in applying management and company/industry standards and practices to day to day work.
4. Competence in appreciating the impacts on the railway from the wide variety of projects characteristic of the team’s work.
5. Competence in planning activities and thinking clearly about objectives and timescales for achieving them.
6. Competence in managing, motivating and mentoring others when required.
7. Competence in persuasiveness as applicable to enforcing railway requirements on clients and contractors in a professional manner.
8. Appreciation of access planning and possession requirements
9. Being organised in day to day activities.
10. Relevant successful construction experience in the railway industry at a practical and professional level would be essential.
11. Commercial, financial and contractual awareness and experience in cost estimating, forecasting and working to budgets and commercial/contractual/ financial criteria.
12. Ability and experience in managing contractors, consultants and clients.
13. Safety, environmental and quality consciousness.
14. Driver of behavioural improvements in both self and others in order to help the whole team succeed in meeting company objectives.
15. Educated to degree level in preferably Civil Engineering or related discipline, and/or with a high degree of practical railway and site knowledge
16. Professional, first class, consistent and effective project management and site management abilities.
17. Membership (or working towards membership) of the Association for Project Management or other professional bodies